John P. Holdren

Background

Dr. John P. Holdren current Director at John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He is also the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He served as Director at Woods Hole Research Center since June 2005. He also served here as Trustee. Dr. Holdren was trained in engineering and physics but has devoted most of his work to ... interdisciplinary studies in energy, environment, and arms control. He co-founded in 1973 and was co-director until 1996 of the interdisciplinary graduate program in energy and resources at the University of California in Berkeley. He began teaching and conducting research at Harvard in 1996. He was a member of President Clinton’s Committee on Advisors on Science and Technology from 1994 to 2001, and he served as chairman of its first study, which led to a revision of US policy on cooperation with Russia on nuclear materials protection. He was chairman of the executive committee of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from 1987 to 1997. He gave the acceptance speech when the Pugwash Conferences received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the Volvo International Prize for Environment and earned the Heinz Prize.

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